> Plus you cannot find a box of say 1G flash drives as cheep as a box of diskettes were. Actually, that's close. On AliExpress, you can get 10 1GB USB sticks f

> Plus you cannot find a box of say 1G flash drives as cheep as a box of diskettes were. Actually, that's close. On AliExpress, you can get 10 1GB USB sticks for about $15. Adjusted for inflation, that's about how much a box of 10 cheap 1.44MB floppies cost in 1990. It became a bit cheaper in the late 90s, but that's about the time CD-R took over for the purpose of handing out stuff. Of course, these cheap USB sticks are not the most reliable by far, but neither were diskettes, at least for the cheap ones, they were absolutely terrible in that regard.